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Automatically detecting software failures is an important task and a longstanding challenge. It requires finding failure-inducing test cases whose test input can trigger the software's fault, and constructing an automated oracle to detect…

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The proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, has raised concerns about their potential impact on academic integrity, prompting the need for LLM-resistant exam designs. This article investigates the performance of LLMs…

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The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot, into software engineering workflows has shown potential to enhance productivity, particularly in software testing. This paper investigates whether LLM…

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Automated unit test generators, particularly search-based software testing tools like EvoSuite, are capable of generating tests with high coverage. Although these generators alleviate the burden of writing unit tests, they often pose…

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With ChatGPT under the spotlight, utilizing large language models (LLMs) to assist academic writing has drawn a significant amount of debate in the community. In this paper, we aim to present a comprehensive study of the detectability of…

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The design and implementation of unit tests is a complex task many programmers neglect. This research evaluates the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) in automatically generating test cases, comparing them with manual tests. An…

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In recent years, large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, have been pivotal in advancing various artificial intelligence applications, including natural language processing and software engineering. A promising yet underexplored area…

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Unit testing is essential for verifying the functional correctness of code modules (e.g., classes, methods), but manually writing unit tests is often labor-intensive and time-consuming. Unit tests generated by tools that employ traditional…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Alex Chudic , Gül Çalıklı

Unit testing plays a pivotal role in software development, improving software quality and reliability. However, generating effective test cases manually is time-consuming, prompting interest in unit testing research. Recently, Large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Ye Shang , Quanjun Zhang , Chunrong Fang , Siqi Gu , Jianyi Zhou , Zhenyu Chen

Recently, large language models (LLM) based generative AI has been gaining momentum for their impressive high-quality performances in multiple domains, particularly after the release of the ChatGPT. Many believe that they have the potential…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Wei Wang , Huilong Ning , Gaowei Zhang , Libo Liu , Yi Wang

Unit testing is crucial for software development and maintenance. Effective unit testing ensures and improves software quality, but writing unit tests is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Recent studies have proposed deep learning (DL)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Junwei Zhang , Xing Hu , Shan Gao , Xin Xia , David Lo , Shanping Li

In the life-cycle of software development, testing plays a crucial role in quality assurance. Proper testing not only increases code coverage and prevents regressions but it can also ensure that any potential vulnerabilities in the software…

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Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) harbor inherent social biases that can result in harmful real-world implications. Such social biases are measured through the probability values that PLMs output for different social groups and attributes…

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Unit testing is a fundamental practice in modern software engineering, with the aim of ensuring the correctness, maintainability, and reliability of individual software components. Very recently, with the advances in Large Language Models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Quanjun Zhang , Chunrong Fang , Siqi Gu , Ye Shang , Zhenyu Chen , Liang Xiao

Recently, the emergence of ChatGPT has attracted wide attention from the computational linguistics community. Many prior studies have shown that ChatGPT achieves remarkable performance on various NLP tasks in terms of automatic evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Jiaan Wang , Yunlong Liang , Fandong Meng , Zengkui Sun , Haoxiang Shi , Zhixu Li , Jinan Xu , Jianfeng Qu , Jie Zhou

ChatGPT has become a global sensation. As ChatGPT and other Large Language Models (LLMs) emerge, concerns of misusing them in various ways increase, such as disseminating fake news, plagiarism, manipulating public opinion, cheating, and…

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This study investigates the application effectiveness of the Large Language Model (LLMs) ChatGLM in the automated generation of high school information technology exam questions. Through meticulously designed prompt engineering strategies,…

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This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of the code generation capabilities of ChatGPT, a prominent large language model, compared to human programmers. A novel dataset of 131 code-generation prompts across 5 categories was curated…

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Developers often build software on top of third-party libraries (Libs) to improve productivity, but these libraries may contain vulnerabilities that enable supply chain attacks. Existing tools detect vulnerable dependencies, yet developers…

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